Faculty & Staff

College Faculty

Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology · Executive Director, Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research

Blomberg’s research is focused upon identifying ways to more effectively link research knowledge to public policy. This includes examining the relationship between educational achievement among incarcerated youthful offenders and successful…

Professor · Director, Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research

Allen E. Liska Professor of Criminology

Baumer’s research focuses on how structural and cultural features of social collectivities influence attitudes and behavior. He had addressed this general theme in multilevel studies of the nature of violence,…

Professor · Director, Distance Learning Program

Beaver’s research examines the biosocial underpinnings to antisocial behaviors. He has employed behavioral genetic and molecular genetic methodologies to unpack the gene-environmental basis to a range of criminal and delinquent…

William Julius Wilson Professor of Criminology

Ted Chiricos' recent research examined the predictors and consequences of criminal justice punitiveness. His collaborative work has shown that economic insecurity and the extent to which people link crime with…

Assistant Professor

Johnson’s research examines the processes that perpetuate racial and gender inequality within various social contexts. She has addressed this theme in two lines of research. Her current work has focused…

David J. Bordua Professor of Criminology

Kleck's recent research has found that higher general gun ownership rates reduce homicide rates, probably because the violence-reducing effects of guns among noncriminal victims and prospective victims outweigh the violence-increasing…

Professor

Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology

Mears’ current research has identified ways in which community conditions influence sentencing decisions; variation in the theoretical justification, uses, and impacts of supermax prisons; the recidivism-reducing effects of inmate visitation;…

Assistant Professor

Rubin’s research examines punishment through historical and sociological perspectives, relying on qualitative and quantitative data. She has ongoing projects that examine eighteenth-century British criminal justice, sentencing disparities for nineteenth-century Pennsylvania…

Assistant Professor

Sonja Siennick is a life course criminologist with specialties in kinship and friendship relations and the transition to adulthood. She studies the close personal relationships of people who are involved…

Associate Professor

Stults' research focuses largely on discrimination in the application of social control. His recent work, published in Criminology and the American Journal of Sociology, addressed racial differences in arrest rates…

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Waldo’s experience covers a wide range of activities related to academic criminology and the criminal justice system. This includes almost 50 years of University teaching, administration, and research, in…

Associate Professor · Director, Undergraduate Program

Patricia Y. Warren, Associate Professor, completed her Ph.D. in 2005 from North Carolina State University in Sociology. Professor Warren's first area of research focuses on race/ethnicity as an organizing principle…

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Eppes Hall, home to FSU Criminology and Criminal Justice, is named after Francis W. Eppes, founder of FSU and grandson of Thomas Jefferson.